AI Without the Hype.
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The Advanced Course · Free

AI Without the Hype

This course is free, ungated, and built for people already directing AI who now run real systems.

This is the next tier, for the person who already directs AI through real work and now runs real things. If the beginner course was about directing one model well, this one is about building and running systems of them, and keeping the quality bar high when you do.

It is free, the same way the beginner course is free. There is no paywall and nothing to buy. Every skill it points at, the council scripts, the review rituals, the anti-slop passes, ships as a file you can download and copy. A course that refuses to gate the tools it teaches cannot then gate itself. If you want to say thanks, there is a donation link that supports a Bulgarian charity. That is the whole ask.

The beginner course is the assumed foundation. This one never re-teaches it. You do not need to be an engineer, and you do not need to already live in a terminal. One chapter teaches the terminal from zero before anything technical, then the technical chapters proceed. Where a step genuinely needs the terminal, it says so first.

A FEW WORDS YOU WILL MEET

The technical chapters use a handful of words that sound like a club you are not in. They are not. Here they are in plain language, so none of them can trip you later:

API
Just a way for one program to talk to another. When two tools connect, they talk through an API. You do not build it, you use it.
A key
A password that proves a request is really yours. You paste it in once so a service knows to let you (and only you) through.
A repo
Short for repository, a project folder that lives online and on your machine. The course has one you copy down and build in.
The terminal
The text window where you type commands instead of clicking. One chapter teaches it from zero. Cloning just means copying the repo down into it.

That is the whole glossary. Everything else is explained the moment it comes up, the same plain way. If a word ever feels like a wall, that is the course failing you, not you failing the course.

WHAT SEPARATES ADVANCED

Three shifts run through every chapter:

From one pass to many
The core advanced move: refuse to trust one answer. Several perspectives, review loops, the council habit.
From using to building
You wrote the Skill, built the MCP server, wired the subagent, set the hook. Not just installing tools, making them.
From a chat to a loop
You build the loop that runs the work, on a schedule, with the review discipline of someone shipping to production.
Same honesty
More power, same anti-hype spine. This course shows the breakages and the cost of the last reliable stretch as plainly as the first one did.
THE 17 CHAPTERS

Part One · Don't Trust One Pass

01The AI Council

02OpenRouter and multi-model

03Two loops of code review

Part Two · Build Your Own Tools

04The starter skills worth installing first

05Build a real Skill, end to end

06Subagents that actually help

Part Three · Architecture for Non-Coders

07The terminal, from zero

08Software architecture for non-coders

09/loop and /goal at depth

Part Four · Connect and Automate

10Build your own MCP

11Claude Code as an automation surface

12Cowork and scheduled work

Part Five · Production and Scale

13Plans, limits, and cost control

14Managed agents, hosted

Part Six · Keep It Honest

15Founder Mode as a system

16Making sure it is not slop

17Where this breaks, and what you still own

Your project · before you start

The technical chapters are hands-on. They come with one public repo you clone and build in, so the exercises are real, not read-only prose. You set it up in the terminal chapter. Pick the one real system you will sharpen across this course: an assistant you run, a pipeline you own, a decision you keep having to make well. The chapters land better when you have something real to point them at.

Start with the AI Council

One model, directed well, is where you started. Many of them, argued against each other and judged by you, is where the real work gets safe. Start with the council.